TIN PLATE.--Various branches of the tin plate trade, ship’s log, steam gauge, art metal, nickel and cobalt refining, button, cocoa, printing, electro-plate, needle.
ZINC and SPELTER.--Brass and alloy makers, yellow and sheathing metal, thimble, whip, art metal, galvanising, copper extraction, button, stereotyping, alkali, electro-plate, nail, watch chain.
NOTE.--The applications of the compound metals or alloys, such as BRASS, BRITANNIA METAL, BELL METAL, GERMAN SILVER, GUN METAL, PHOSPHOR TIN, FERRO-MANGANESE, HARD AND SOFT SOLDERS, and others, are not given for want of space. The most important trades consuming metal in the form of leaf and powder--GOLD LEAF, SILVER LEAF and BRONZES--are bedstead manufacturing, picture frame making, japanning, lithography, art metal work (planishing.)
ACETIC (VINEGAR).--Gelatine manufacture, button, lithography, whip, sword, art metal, gas fitting, bedsteads.
BORACIC.--German silver, electro-deposition.
CARBOLIC.--Gelatine, soap, ammunition works.
HYDROFLUORIC.--Glass, gas fitting, nickel and cobalt works, button making, railway carriage.
HYDROCHLORIC (MURIATIC or SPIRITS of SALT).--Metal trades generally, gas manufacture, gelatine, printing, chemical trades, railway carriage.
HYDROCYANIC.--Button, pen and penholder, electro-plate.
NITRIC (AQUA FORTIS).--Metal trades generally, especially brass, gelatine, button, whip, sword, gun, hook and eye.
OXALIC.--Tin plate, art metal work, button, tool making, whip, pen and penholders, wholesale boot and shoe trade.
SULPHURIC (OIL OF VITRIOL).--Iron wire, nails, bedsteads, button, pen, gelatine, chemical trades, soap, hook and eye, tin plate, brass trades, gun, whip, sword.
TARTARIC.--Gelatine, nickel and cobalt, art metal.
AMMONIA and AMMONIUM SALTS.--Gas manufacture, brass trades generally, galvanising, buttons, tin plate, printing and lithography, nails, paper.
ARSENIOUS ANHYDRIDE or WHITE ARSENIC.--Brass founding, chandelier, electro-plate, buttons.
ALUM.--Gelatine, paper, rolled metal, buttons, wholesale boot and shoe.
BORAX.--Metal trades generally, jewellers, gelatine.
COPPER SULPHATE or BLUE STONE.--Iron wire, electro-plate, buttons, fibre dressing, printing.
GLYCERINE.--Gas fittings, soap, printing.